Video: Defining Forth Data Structures / Records
This is fun, #Forth for the #PDP-8. Newly authored, no less!
https://github.com/YulBEdwards/forth8
I haven't tried it yet; found at https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/pdp-8-history-and-operation-and-thoughts-of-focal-versus-forth/1436/26?u=elb .
Neue Version des e4thcom Terminal
PlanckForth - ein minimales Linux-Forth
PlackForth ist ein Linux-Programm als handgeschriebene ELF-Linux-Datei (ELF = Executable and Linking Format - Dateiformat für ausführbare Dateien unter Unix/Linux). D.h PlankForth liegt nicht im Quelltext als Assembler oder Hochsprache vor, sondern wurde vom Autor Koichi Nakamura manuell in einer Hex-Datei geschrieben. Diese Hexdatei ist der "Quellcode" und wird in Binärcode "übersetzt".
Das Ergebnis ist ein minimales Forth mit 37 Forth-"Wörtern" die jeweils aus nur einem Buchstaben (bei Unterscheidung von Gross- und Kleinschreibung) bestehen. Das resultierende Binärprogramm ist genau 1024 Bytes gross, also doppelt so gross wie SectorForth.
https://forth-ev.de/articles/471/planckforth-ein-minimales-linux-forth
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust
https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/
The discussion in c.l.f. about the optimisations of the Forth version are an interesting read
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/8ugTFxGXdaI
New simple 64-bit native-code Forth system running on AMD64
It is work in progress and can be found on Github: https://github.com/AntonErtl/fforth
Matteo Vitturi writes a Z80N Forth system suitable to run on the new ZX Spectrum Next
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary.
https://github.com/nineties/planckforth
Thanks to Philip Zembrod, VolksForth now runs on the new #Commander-x16 homecomputer:
Z79Forth
@forth Thanks, Carsten. The board is real and so are the benchmark results submitted for the VCFe Muenchen 2020. Picture attached. Kicad schematics to be provided on Github within two weeks time.
Z79Forth
https://github.com/frenchie68/Z79Forth
Liebe Freunde des gepflegten Alteisens! Kommendes Wochenende ist Vintage Computing Festival Berlin 2020 https://vcfb.de/2020/), und ihr könnt das alle besuchen, ohne auch nur einen einzigen Fuß vor die Tür zu tun. Ich bin dieses Jahr leider nur passiv dabei. Schade finde ich insbesondere, dass dieses Jahr die Fotografiererei auf der Strecke bleiben wird: https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=52924836%40N00&text=vcfb&view_all=1 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vcfberlin #vcfb
Forth benchmark competition and Forth "live-coding" tomorrow @ VCFb
Thanks to various expressions of interest & support, I've freshened my old ForthOS. It builds its own GDT/IDT, has a proper RTC handler, and all I/O is interrupt based (previously it was a polled system). On qemu it no longer pegs the host CPU at 100%. It's still free, open source, and so forth. Try the new image disk image (source included):
Video: IMSAI 8080 FORTH programming
https://invidious.13ad.de/watch?v=2nxwIfr8GJA
#retro #forth 2020.7 is now out.
Get it at https://forthworks.com/retro/r/RETRO12-2020.7.tar.gz or gopher://forthworks.com/9/retro/r/RETRO12-2020.7.tar.gz (add .sig and .pub to the URL if you want to check the signature)
This is a minor release, see http://forth.works/share/95e3a6e7444ee03fdf23efbe309f8061 or
gopher://forth.works/0/share/95e3a6e7444ee03fdf23efbe309f8061
As a side note, I now have a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/_crc to help support the ongoing development. As a result of this, Retro is now available for free in the iOS and Mac App Stores
@alexshendi @ckeen @wasamasa @forth Ace! 😁
(And yes, I know this is based off of the Jupiter Ace. It's my favorite machine that I'll never be able to own).